My feeling, personally, is that violence against other humans creates such anger and resentment that the back lash against it means that terrorism doesn't work. So you'e got to try to look to what's the most effective political action. From my own subject position, it keep coming back to citizenship, mass demonstrations, civil resistance, maybe sabotage. And i would say that ministry for the future is more like the slurry of current events itself. It presents a lot of stuff, possibly i'm not capable of making good recommendations for other people. But when you try that hard enough, you can go into a tranceit's, it's effective.
Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction, climate crisis, Marxism, geo-engineering, political violence, green Keynesianism, and a lot more. Interviewed by guest host Daniel Aldana Cohen, who read 11 of Robinson’s books during the pandemic quarantine, running from Red Mars through The Ministry for the Future.
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